User:Filedelinkerbot

This user account is a bot operated by Krd (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevant request for approval can be seen here. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

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Task

This bot watches the deletion log here at English Wikipedia and at Wikimedia Commons and with a delay of five minutes removes file references from articles (namespace 0) and template (namespace 10) of files which have been deleted. This bot does not delete files but only removes usage of files that are no longer available to avoid broken links in articles (see Category:Articles with missing files). Approved at BRFA on 19 February 2014.

Bot log

Searchable log of the bot's action is available at: //tools.wmflabs.org/krdbot/cgi-bin/Dateientlinkerlog.pl https://commons-delinquent.toolforge.org/x-delinkers.php

Cases where the bot failed to unlink files (e.g. in complicated infoboxes) are listed at: User:Filedelinkerbot/failed unlinks

Bot's edits for files that got restored or reuploaded are listed at: User:Filedelinkerbot/restored files

See also

• User:CommonsDelinker (different bot for the same task, for which there is "little to no development capacity")
• Category:Articles with missing files